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midwinter

noun
/ˌmɪdˈwɪntə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English midwinter, mydwinter, mydwynter, from Old English midwinter, from Proto-West Germanic *midiwintru, from Proto-Germanic *midjawintruz (“midwinter”), equivalent to mid- + winter. Cognate with West Frisian midwinter (“midwinter”), Dutch midwinter (“midwinter”), German Mittwinter (“midwinter”), Danish midvinter (“midwinter”), Swedish midvinter (“midwinter”).

  1. inherited from *midjawintruz✻ — “midwinter”
  2. inherited from *midiwintru✻
  3. inherited from midwinter
  4. inherited from midwinter

Definitions

  1. The middle of winter.

    • IN midwinter the shadow that hung over John gathered into storm-cloud.

  2. The winter solstice

    The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.

  3. Of or occurring in the middle of winter.

    • Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.
    • There is aid at hand in the tourist’s personal war midwinter fatigue and ennui—airlines serving the Caribbean islands are at odds with each other’s tariffs, and their competitive juggling of schedules and prices benefits the tourist.
    • When my son was born, a midwinter child, he cried pitifully at the ward's lights, and settled to sleep only when he was laid in a big pram with a black hood under a black umbrella.

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Derived

midwinter day, midwinter's day, midwinter eve, midwinter even, midwinter's eve, midwinter's even, mid-winterly, midwinter month, midwinter night, midwinter's night, midwinter tide, midwinter's tide, mid-wintry

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for midwinter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA